Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798

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REVISED AND EXTENDED SECOND EDITION 'Rebellions is an autobiography, an astonishingly clear-sighted and lucid account of a tragic and disputed episode in Irish history and a polemic. The book's importance, originality and real value arise from the way the personal, the political and the scholarly are each offered as passionate witness and not separated. The rebellion of 1798 in Wexford and its two hundredth anniversary have found a brilliant and fearless chronicler. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the arguments about how the past cut deeply into the way we live in Irela.;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PROLOGUE : 'On Vinegar Hill, o'er the pleasant Slaney': Private Grief and the Public Sphere; PART I : The Historian: An Intellectual Memoir; CHAPTER 1 : The Child; CHAPTER 2 : The Christian Brother; CHAPTER 3 : University College Dublin; CHAPTER 4 : University College Cork and Cambridge; CHAPTER 5 : The Academic; PART II : Understanding 1798: Historiography, Commemoration; CHAPTER 6 : Histories of 1798: From Musgrave to Cullen; CHAPTER 7 : Commemoration: Comóradh '98. Cover Title Page Dedication Table of Contents ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PROLOGUE : 'On Vinegar Hill, o'er the pleasant Slaney': Private Grief and the Public Sphere PART I : The Historian: An Intellectual Memoir CHAPTER 1 : The Child CHAPTER 2 : The Christian Brother CHAPTER 3 : University College Dublin CHAPTER 4 : University College Cork and Cambridge CHAPTER 5 : The Academic PART II : Understanding 1798: Historiography, Commemoration CHAPTER 6 : Histories of 1798: From Musgrave to Cullen CHAPTER 7 : Commemoration: Comóradh '98. CHAPTER 8 : Commemorationist History?PART III : 5 June 1798 CHAPTER 9 : Sources CHAPTER 10 : Background: Old Quarrels and New Politics CHAPTER 11 : Rebellion: The Background to the Battle of New Ross CHAPTER 12 : 5 June 1798: The Battle CHAPTER 13 : The Killings at Scullabogue CHAPTER 14 : New Ross: The Aftermath of the Battle CHAPTER 15 : Envoi CHAPTER 16 : Responses: Evidence, Emotion and the Past APPENDIX A : The Gaelic Poetry of Micheál Óg Ó Longáin: A Case-Study in Politicization APPENDIX B : The Ballads of Thomas Dunne ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A, B, C INDEX. D, E, FG, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X Y, Z Copyright.